Respect the Sphere

CIVIL WAR

No, I’m not talking about the one in everyone keeps thinking will happen here in the United States. I doubt a civil war could happen (primarily because we have no infrastructure anymore capable of one side or the other ever achieving “victory”, as it were) and, if it did, it’d probably be Texas versus everyone else. And Tom Kratman already wrote that book.

No, what I’m focused on more is the rapid escalation of hostilities in fandom. As you may have surmised, I had a cursory interest...